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axial muscle

NOUN
  1. a skeletal muscle of the trunk or head

How To Use axial muscle In A Sentence

  • Recent modeling studies have focused on systems such as vertebrate jaws, limbs, tongues and tentacles and axial muscle.
  • In galloping, the epaxial and hypaxial muscles function to produce dorsoventral bending of the vertebral column, and muscles fire bilaterally and uniphasically.
  • That study demonstrated that in anesthetized birds, resting on their sternum, one of the epaxial muscles (the longissimus dorsi) was consistently active during inspiration.
  • This suggestion is based on the observation that locomotion was the primitive function of the hypaxial muscles that are responsible for costal ventilation in modern amniotes.
  • Myogenesis in the paraxial muscles (dorsal compartment) is dependent on contact with the neural tube and notochord, while limb and abdominal muscles (ventral compartment) are not.
  • To the best of my knowledge, this tendon insertional pattern represents a unique morphological construct for cetaceans, mammals that lack connections between epaxial muscles and pelves.
  • For instance, many transgenic experiments with members of the myogenic pathway have defects that differentially impact epaxial and hypaxial muscles.
  • The former included assessment of tongue and temporal muscles, epaxial muscles, a selection of appendicular muscles (including flexors and extensors at various depths) in both pelvic and thoracic limbs using digital electrodiagnostic equipment (Medelec Synergy, Oxford Instruments). PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • During walking, the epaxial muscles, organized into longitudinal tracts, function to stabilize the vertebral column.
  • There are five hypaxial muscles in both the African and South American lungfishes.
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